Page:Modern English Biography vol 2.pdf/13

3 IBRAHIM, MIRZA MUHAMMAD. b. Persia ; a great English scholar ; assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian there 1829 -44 ; retired on a pension from H. E .I. Co. ; translated Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in Arabic ; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841, and other books published in Leipzig ; tutor to the heir of the Shah of Persia. d. Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY, THOMAS. 6. Plymouth, Nov. 1797 ; went to New South Wales 1819 ; a merchant and shipper Sydney ; member of legislative council 1842-56 ; a member of the upper house 1864 to death. d. Elizabeth farm , Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. Heaton's Australian Dict. of dates ( 1879) 99.

IDDESLEIGH, SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTH COTE, 1 Earl of ( eld, son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792 – 1850). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818 ; ed. at Eton 1831-6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B. A. 1839, M. A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863 ; barrister L .I. 19 Nov. 1847 ; legal sec. to board of trade 1847 ; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851 ; C. B. 25 Oct. 1851, G. C. B. 20 April 1880 ; M. P. Dudley 1855 - 7, M. P. Stamford 1858 – 66, M. P. North Devon 1866 - 85 ; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867 ; P. C. 6 July 1866 ; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868 ; governor of Hud son Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869 ; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880 ; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884 ; cr. earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885 ; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb. 1886 ; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849 ; A statement connected with the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853, 1853 ; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862 ; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. d. in Lord Salisbury's ante-room, Downing st. Lon don 12 Jany. 1887. Lang's Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed. (1891), 2 portraits ; D. Anderson's Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24 - 28 ; C. Brown's Life of Beaconsfield, i 98 (1882), portrait ; W. Hole's Quasi Čursores (1884 ) 19, 21- 3, portrait.

NOTE. - He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Three Clerks under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, ROGER. b. Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834 ; a butcher ; kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864 ; one of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862 ; played his first match at Lords 9 - 11 June 1862 ; played in 27 first-rate matches and made 1059 runs 1867 ; founded with George Freeman the United North of England Eleven 1869; professionalat Harrow school 1871- 2 ; joint sec. with C. D. Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874 ; a first-rate batsman, a good fieldsman at point and a good lob-bowler ; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. d. 20 Blake st. York 19 March 1890. Illust. sporting news, iii 441 (1864), portrait

IDLE, CHRISTOPHER. b. Kent 1799 or 1800 ; lived in France some years, then in Argyle shire ; joint editor with J. H. Walsh of The Field 1858 - 9 ; contributed to the Review and Land and Water ; a salmon fisher ; a whist player and member of Graham 's and the Portland clubs ; a member of the Reform where he was one of the best ecarté players 1856 to death ; edited The rural almanack 1855 ; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865. d. 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. Westminster papers July 1871 p. 44 ; Field 3 June 1871 p. 447.

IGGULDEN, John. b. Deal 1 June 1777 ; notary and proctor Doctors' commons, Lon don ; one of the 3 deputy registrars of prero gative court of Canterbury, Doctors' commons 1829 to death. d. 8 Russell sq. London 18 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

IKIN, JOHN ARTHUR. b. 1810 ; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death ; town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death. d. Scarcroft grange near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep. 1860 p. 5.

ILBERY, JOSIAH JAMES. b. London 16 Sep. 1769 ; superintendent Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855 when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable railway officers in the world. d. Douglas, Isle ofMan 11 April 1869 when almost a centenarian. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 485 -6 (1869).

ILCHESTER, HENRY STEPHEN Fox STRANGWAYS, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747 – 1802). . 21 Feb. 1787; styled lord Stavordale 1787– 1802 ; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D. C. L. 1814 ; succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802 ; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb.